# back to msvc as the default C ABI on Windows · gitcafe/zig

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Commit: 95e04e3874dd1284c39182e7909d122ceb1c56c4

Tree: 3b5b50113e0aafb30d4bb1d2613affcce83369e0

Author: Andrew Kelley

Committer: Andrew Kelley

## Message

```
back to msvc as the default C ABI on Windows

Zig provides a libc for the GNU C ABI on Windows, and cannot (at least
yet) provide one for the MSVC C ABI. However when not linking libc,
zig has no problem targeting MSVC as the C ABI. And this should be the
default.

Related: #2911

```

## Parents

- [d64bd30690b042177f084a5c17166777b953dd27](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zig/commit/d64bd30690b042177f084a5c17166777b953dd27?format=markdown)

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